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An 80-year-old man who ordered hunters off his property at gunpoint has been prohibited from owning weapons for eight years.

The 80-year-old Brooke-Alvinston Township man was found guilty in Sarnia court Thursday of pointing a gun at a person in December 2011, but was granted a discharge that will leave him without a criminal record.

Justice Deborah Austin’s decision was based on a one-day trial Nov. 27.

The man’s frightening reaction to two men driving on his laneway was dangerous, said Austin on Thursday.

The two visitors wanted to ask permission to hunt on the isolated rural property at a later date.

Before they could ask, the 80-year-old ordered them to leave with his loaded .303 British Enfield rifle in his hand.

“It (the rifle) was pointed at us,” one of the visitors testified. “I was ready to die,”

Both men complied with the 80-year-old’s instructions to back up the driveway and leave, but they called the OPP afterwards.

The man testified he had the rifle in his hand but did not point it at anyone.

That testimony contradicted his daughter’s, who said her father never moved the gun from his shoulder, where it had been hanging by the gun’s sling.

One hunter had only said his name and he was from Sarnia when the 80-year-old told him to get off his property.